Complete the reading of a coin.
The titulature supplies a ______, often to the year. Measured fineness records the ______, with the denarius collapsing from 97% to 5% silver. But the legend is advertising: CONCORDIA MILITVM is evidence of ______, because nobody proclaims what they already have.
Word bank: date · debasement · mutiny · provenance · a victory
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- The physical evidence gives date and economic condition.
- The inscribed message must be read against its own claim.
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The titulature supplies a date, often to the year. Measured fineness records the debasement, with the denarius collapsing from 97% to 5% silver. But the legend is advertising: CONCORDIA MILITVM is evidence of mutiny, because nobody proclaims what they already have.
Date, debasement, mutiny, three readings, and only the last one requires you to disbelieve the object entirely.
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